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The African Development Bank and International Solar Alliance are joining forces to scale up solar energy in Africa. Their goal is to develop 10,000 MW of solar power systems across the sunshine-rich Sahel. As...

The UN’s food and agriculture agency and Vietnam launched a report that outlines the economic, environmental and social costs that extreme weather events are having on agricultural production worldwide. Poor farmers bear the largest...

Researchers at New Orb Media and State University of New York found microplastics in 11 leading brands of bottled water worldwide. A single litre of bottled water can contain thousands of plastic particles. Exclusive...

The EU Commission has unveiled a strategy to make the European financial system for sustainable. Steps include an EU label for green financial products. The EU commission has set out a roadmap to boost...

Krill is not only an important food source for countless marine animals, the tiny crustaceans could also prove to be a secret weapon in the fight against ocean plastic pollution, according to Australian researchers....

Smart energy technologies such as intelligent electricity meters, smart home networking applications and smart home solutions not only promise to reduce your own power requirements. They also have the potential to make electricity generation...

Similar to corals, foraminifera in tropical reefs bleach as the water temperature rises. In research, these unicellular organisms can help to investigate the effects of climate change on calcifying organisms. Scientists from Bremen and...

More than 70 percent of the global King penguin population, currently forming colonies in Crozet, Kerguelen and Marion sub-Antarctic islands, may be nothing more than a memory in a matter of decades, as global...

Researchers have found plastic particles in three out of four fish in the depths of the Northwest Atlantic Ocean. As these fish are often a food source for other marine animals, this microplastic waste...

Tiny plastic particles also present a threat to creatures on land and may have damaging effects similar or even more problematic than in our oceans. Researchers from the Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland...

Global warming and political decisions are opening the Arctic and its frosty seas to increased development. But what will happen if that expansion results in oil spills in the frozen ocean? Nancy Bazilchuk reports...

Despite subzero temperatures, increased UV radiation, little liquid water, and few available nutrients, bacteria living at Earth’s poles thrive. They manage it thanks in part to molecules called biosurfactants, which help them separate the...

Sweden’s red-green government is going ahead with a ban on the sale of microplastics in cosmetics because of their harmful environmental impact. The country is considering further bans. André Anwar reports from Stockholm. You...

Scientists at the University of California Berkeley have made a major breakthrough by developing windows that automatically tint on a sunny day and which can also convert the sunlight into electricity. Elke Bunge reports....

New research from the University of Manchester shows that microwave usage across the EU alone emits as much carbon dioxide as nearly seven million cars and consumes as much electricity as is generated by...

While less new coal-fired power plants are now being built in China and India, the planned expansion in the use of coal in fast-growing emerging economies, such as Turkey, Indonesia and Vietnam, will in...

The ongoing expansion of human activity in pristine nature is limiting the habitats of migratory mammals, finds an international study. The researchers are calling for the creation of more open landscape areas. Elke Bunge...

Australian airline Qantas flew for the first time with biofuel from Los Angeles to Melbourne. The blended biofuel saved 18,000 kilograms in carbon emissions on the historic 15-hour, trans-Pacific flight. Barbara Barkhausen reports from...

Life cycle assessment and product carbon footprints are well established tools which assist the process of improving environmental performance. However, there is room for methodological improvement. New methods tested in a recent study allow...

An international team has found that contact with plastic waste massively increases the chance of disease in corals. Coral reefs provide vital fisheries and coastal defense. Plastic debris stresses coral through light deprivation, toxin...

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Our Advisory Board

Peter E. Merian used to be Director of the Basler Börse and CEO Bank Sarasin, Board Member of National Zeitung and Basler Nachrichten AG and founding member of the Global Environmental Society.

Lord Anthony St John of Bletso is a qualified solicitor and Member of Board, Rados International. Former Vice President of Business Development of OCRA, consultant to Merrill Lynch, director of WMRC plc and Pecaso Ltd. and Non-Executive Director of Regal Petroleum, Lord Anthony is currently an extra Lord-in-Waiting to HM The Queen. Since 1997 to the present he has sat on the Member of Lords EU Select Committee A. He is a spokesman on African affairs, deregulation, financial services and information technology. President of Friends of South Africaand used to be Iegal advisor for Shell in South Africa.

Dr. Betrand Piccard is wellknown for the first ever non-stop balloon flight around the world. Doctor of psychiatry and psychotherapy, President of Solar Impulse, which aims to fly around the world in a solar driven aircraft without producing any polluting emissions, Bertrand hopes to draw the public’s attention to the inevitable changes needed to ensure our planet’s future energy resources and ecology and to give environmental protection a positive and stimulating image.

Dr. Marcelo Cavalho de Andrade is Doctor of Medicine and non-executive Chairman of Pró-Natura international, the first international environmental organization that manages sustainable development and conservation projects funded by international organizations, governments and the private sector in South and Central America, Africa and Asia. Marcelo has been appointed President of ECA –Earth Counsil Alliance a non-profit organization, created by Maurice Strong.